FedEx flight 795-plane crash for insurance

April 7, 1994 42-year-old flight engineer Auburn Calloway, who worked in the transport company Federal Express, boarded the plane, intending to kill himself, all the crew members and send the Board to the ground, simulating a plane crash. Oborn was hoping his family would get a big insurance policy for his death. Calloway would never have dared such recklessness, but when he hired him, he lied about his flight experience, and when he found out, he was threatened with firing from FedEx. Fedex flight No. 705 went from Tennessee to California with a load of electronics to Silicon Valley.

Oborn came on Board with guitar case, in which lay a few hammers and a gun for underwater hunting. He was going to turn off the recording of conversations in the cockpit and then kill all crew members with a hammer, simulating injuries, typical of plane crashes (in the past oborn had martial arts training). He took a spearfishing gun just in case. If Calloway had succeeded, His family would have received $ 2.5 million in insurance from FedEx. Fortunately for the crew, Calloway's plan didn't work. One of the pilots noticed the Registrar of negotiations turned off by Oborn and turned it on again. 20 minutes after takeoff oborn broke into the cockpit and began to hammer at everything that moves. Each crew member got a few shots. As it was told, Calloway's been struck with a face devoid of all emotion. In America, in such cases it is customary to say "just a business". After a fierce fight, the wounded pilot managed to dump Oborne on the floor and twist his. At this time, the uncontrolled aircraft flew several times to the limit of its capabilities, threatening to collapse from overloads in the air. The pilots made an emergency landing at Memphis airport. Oborn was arrested. All members of the crew of FedEx flight 705 was seriously injured. The skull of the first pilot James Tucker was broken in several places - because of this he began to experience problems with the motor right hand and right leg. Captain David Sanders suffered multiple head injuries-doctors had to sew on his right ear. The second flight engineer Peterson also suffered multiple skull fractures and trauma to the temporal artery. Damage to the aircraft was estimated at $ 800,000. Callaway, told the court that he was in the heat of passion and did not control their actions. But the court sentenced him to two life sentences for hijacking and attempted murder. Now oborn is in Atwater prison in California. In the prison system of the United States, he is held as a "prisoner number 14601-076". In 1994, the Association of civil aviation pilots were awarded to Sanders, Tucker and Peterson gold medal for heroism, the highest award that can be paid to an American pilot.